After consulting with stakeholders, the government said it would lift the ban, which was implemented in 2014, adding that hunting would resume "in an orderly and ethical manner," but gave no ...

Up until 2019 there was a ban on trophy hunting that had been imposed by Botswana's then-president Ian Khama in 2014 due to declining wildlife numbers. This was lifted by current president ...

The video of LaPierre hunting an elephant in Botswana was published by The Trace and The New Yorker, which say the hunt took place in 2013. The video includes graphic scenes, showing elephants ...

Botswana, home to the world’s largest elephant population, has threatened to send 20,000 of the giant living land mammals to Germany to “roam free" amid a feud over trophy hunting.

The prohibition on elephant hunting in Botswana was introduced in 2014 by then-president Ian Khama, who was a keen environmentalist. But within months of being succeeded by President Mokgweetsi ...

As elephant expert and WildlifeDirect CEO Paula Kahumbu writes on Twitter, “There’s no such thing as ‘ethical hunting.’ It’s an oxymoron.” ...

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Facing an income shortage from the loss of tourism due to COVID-19, Zimbabwe has announced it will soon start selling rights to shoot 500 endangered elephants this year.

Northern Botswana is home to Africa's largest elephant population, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The population grew steadily from 80,000 in 1996 to 129,000 in 2014.

Botswana on Wednesday announced the lifting of its ban on elephant hunting, attributing its decision to an apparent rise in “human-elephant conflict” caused by rising elephant numbers.